From Poor House to Palace Chapter XI
Mary Howard faces opposition as a new district teacher in Rice Corner. Widow Perkins resents the assignment while Mary earns the district’s approval through patience. A handsome stranger, Mr Stuart, visits the school, plants curiosity about Mary, and Mary receives a letter from Boston friend George Moreland amid summer plans to attend Wilbraham Academy.
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Brown
Mary Howard
Rice Corner
Perkin
Knight
Mary
Conclave
Elee Mikes Manyn
Bradley
Mia
Billy
Chicopee
Mrs. Mason
Pupple
Peeking
New
Engl
Perkins
Sally Ano
Bally Ane
Liddy Knight
Mrs. Merkine
Della Frost
Ton
Lydia
Mr. Stuart
Mr. Btuart
Stuart
Wilbraham
Uncle Jim
Dolly
Mano
Mr. Knight
Blanchard Hill
Jehu
Scisors
Rive Corner
Ue High
Ella Campbell
Ella
Iallas
Bin
Niarm
Old Charlotte
George Moreland
George
Boston
William Beader
George Anil
Widow Perking
Sally Ann
Mrs
Judith
Jenny Lincoln
Mount Holyoke
Rose
Ma Selden
Maretha
Miss Lyon
Ida
Mrs. Campbell
Jenny
Dry-Dock Disaster Sinks As Repairs End in Tragedy
A deteriorated floating dry-dock sank in sixty feet of water after the Ingalls vessel listed from ballast or shifting blocks. About 80 Italian laborers in the hold are unaccounted. One painter, Martin Anderson, was killed. others were injured or rescued as workers fled the wreckage. The ship had entered the 50-year-old dock for repairs costing around $30,000. The incident raises questions about dock safety and the fate of the men below.
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New York
United States
Ingalls
Erie Bas
Manila
Martin Anderson
Ferry Boats Collided in New York Harbor Tragedy
In New York on June 17 the wooden side wheeler Northfield, 38 years in service, collided with the steel-hulled Mauchunk off Staten Island. The Northfield sank within twenty minutes at the Spanish Line pier as more than 100 passengers were rescued or drowned. Captain Daniel Quily of the tug Mutual reported many leapt into the water and over 100 Northfield passengers were feared dead.
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New York
Northfield
Statan Inland Ferry Company
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Staten Island
Whitehall Street
East River
Mauchan
Moa
Daniel Guly
Mutual
Anarchists Plan Target Practice Parade in Ridgewood
A World article reports anarchists in Greater New York will set up wooden dummies wearing metal chest protectors as shooting targets in Liberty Park Ridgewood. Johann Most is named marshal and honored guest for a grand annual event amid unresolved war against capital and power.
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New York
Europe
Liberty Park
Ridgewood
L. L
Greater
Johann Most
Heat Claims Three Lives as Thermometer Rises in City
Chicago reports three heat deaths amid three hot days despite milder conditions today. Washington dispatch notes War Department statistics on Philippine insurgents through 1902, listing captures, surrenders, officers and men totals, ammunition, and equipment.
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Chicago
Philippines
Washington
War Department
Three Men in a Boat Rescue Voyage to Help Border Knight
Halifax Nova Scotia June 15 After sailing nearly 700 miles in an open boat to aid their ship the Border Knight chief officer Mathie and two crewmen reach Sheet while the rescue party seeks shelter 40 miles east with a broken tall shaft and slow voyage from Africa. The Border Knight bound from Cape Verde to New York faced a desperate situation as the May 29 signal went unanswered until the Durance responded nearby.
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Halifax
Mathie
Sheet
Africa
Durance
Esmerd
Cape Verde Islands
New York
Fire at a Health Resort in Indianapolis Overwhelms Guests
Reports from Salem and Bedford describe a large fire at a health resort hotel in Indianapolis on June 15. Hundreds of guests were housed as belongings were destroyed, with little time to escape. Fire facilities were strained, and the value reportedly reached about 1 million dollars with only 100,000 dollars in insurance.
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Indianapolis
Salem
Bedford
Journal
Lion
Four Lives Lost In Czar Schooner Disaster At St Johns
In dense fog and gale the schooner Czar bound for Labrador with Newfoundland fishermen and families foundered. Four men drowned, six injured, women and children survived landing on the island after two days without food. They will sail home on a mail steamer.
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St. Johns
N. F
Labrador
New Foundland
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Higginbee
Indianapolis Press
Satan
Truman M Safford
Wie Name College
Truman Henry Safford
Willamatown
Royalton, VI
Reece
West Baden
Ind
Newfoundland
Honolulu
San Francis
San Yet Sen
America Mara
China
America
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